Why the Google Adwords Keywords tool says there are 0 local monthly searches for a keyword or shows a dash, but in spite of this there's competition for those keywords (up to 0.42 in some cases) ?

Thanks!!

In OSE's, "Followed Linking Root Domains" are defined as "The number of root domains that have at least one followed link to a page or domain." Does this mean that if one of my competitors has, let's say, 1000 followed linking root domains, they have a link pointing to them on the homepage of 1000 other sites?

Thanks for your help!

Hi KTaylor,

Thanks for replying.

Yes, I also found that link, but I was wondering if there's some data as authoritative as the one I found for mobile market share in Comscore. This Wikipedia article has good references, please don't misunderstand me, I'm not denying its value.

Here are the mobile stats, in case that anyone wants to take a look

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2012/3/comScore_Reports_January_2012_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share

http://www2.comscore.com/l/1552/ore2012MobileFutureinFocus-pdf/3127bd

Hi,

Could you please point me to a reliable resource where I can find information on US desktop browser share?

I have already found info for mobile (Comscore) but not for desktop.

Thanks in advance for your replies

We will change an old school  HTML drop down navigation for an AJAX drop down one.

What's your experience in regards to Google indexing AJAX?

I know that Google is now able to read more stuff than in the past, but I need some stories "from the trenches" if you're willing to share.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I'm afraid the number of indexed url in the widget is also 0.

I think that the best will be for us to wait a few days and see what happens.

What do you think?

Thanks!

Hi,

This is happening with a brand new site.

We have created sitemaps and submitted them to Google Webmaster Tools.

GWT says sitemaps are ok, "x" number of urls submitted, but no urls indexed.

When I check in Google with site:domain.com I see that many of the urls are already indexed.

Why this discrepancy between GWT and reality?

Thanks for your time!

So, this code:

#removes trailing slash
         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^.localhost$ [NC]
         RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L]

and this code:

REDIRECT to canonical url

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

should be added to our .htaccess ?

Or is it just one of the two code blocks?

Thanks for your time!

Hi,

We are running  a campaign for a website in SEOmoz.

We get a dup content issue warning:

http://www.oursite.com and http://www.oursite.com/ are being seen as 2 different urls.

Only difference among 2 urls is the trailing slash at the end of the second url.

Why is this happening? I was aware of www vs non www but never heard of an issue related to the slash.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your reply, I'll follow your advice and keep you updated.

Thank you very much for your concise and excellent explanation.

Needless to say, other opinions are welcome.

We have a website which has:

a) a top navigation with links to top categories

b) a footer with links to top categories and to every subcategory

c) the following structure: home > category > subcategory > items

For usability purposes I plan to remove the links at the bottom and add a drop down menu to each top category in top navigation.

I plan to make all links in the top nav no follow in order to be able to do pagerank sculpting for each category (will build links that point to each category and pass link juice to subcategories and then to items, but I don't want link juice to spread across all of the site through links in the footer, which as said before will be removed)

Is pagerank sculpting still valid? What do you think of my plan?

Thanks for your time.

Here comes another one related to SEOmoz "On-Page Optimization" Tool.

The tool says the following about one of our pages:

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Canonical URL Tag Usage

Explanation: Although the canonical URL tag is generally thought of as a way to solve duplicate content problems, it can be extremely wise to
use it on every (unique) page of a site to help prevent any query strings, session IDs, scraped versions, licensing deals or future
developments to potentially create a secondary version and pull link juice or other metrics away from the original. We believe
the canonical URL tag is a best practice to help prevent future problems, even if nothing is specifically duplicate/problematic
today.

Recommendation: Add a canonical URL tag referencing this URL to the header of the page.

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Let's say our page is http://www.example.com/brands/abc-brand and on its header we'll place the following tag:

Is this correct?

I thought the canonical tag was meant for duplicates of the original page, for example:

http://www.example.com/brands/**print**/abc-brand

href="http://www.example.com/brands/abc-brand**?SESSID=123**

Thanks in advance.

FYI, based on the information provided by the SEOmoz tool we will revamp the page (tags, look, content), therefore it'll be a "new page".

We ran SEOmoz's "On-Page Optimization" tool on a url which contains the character "_".

According to the tool:

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"Characters which are less commonly used in URLs may cause problems with accessibility, interpretation and ranking in search engines. It is considered a best practice to stick to standard URL structures to avoid potential problems."

"Rewrite the URL to contain only standard characters."

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Therefore we will rewrite the url, replacing "_" with "-".

Will search engines consider the "-" url a different one? Do we need to 301 the old url to the new one?

Thanks for your help!

Hi Nicholas,

Thanks for taking the time to reply to our question.

1. GWT hasn't re-crawled since 301 implementation

Has re-crawled several times.

2. The 301ing URLs aren't all right

We will check this...

3. You're 301ing to 404'ing URLs.

No we're not.

4. About 100 other things.

Ok

We have redesigned a website. The old site used to have lots of urls, the new sites has far less. We have pointed all old urls to the new urls with 301 redirects. This happened a couple of weeks ago. But we are still getting many 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools.

What's the reason for this?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, we're using WordPress, but the e-commerce site runs on Netsuite so we can't use php on the homepage.

Thank you very much for your detailed reply, but we don't have access to the server, it's a Netsuite e-commerce site.